Tuesday, March 11 2014
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Is Renewable Energy Worth $5 Per Household, Per Year?
Is Cincinnati going less green this year? That seems like a likely scenario, should interim City Manager Scott Stiles get his way. In effort to reduce household costs by roughly $5 over the course of the year, Stiles has decided to buy conventional, fossil-fuel energy over renewable energy via the city's electric aggregation program. This is a disappointing decision as Cincinnati has made some significant strides in reducing greenhouse gases in recent years.
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Local LGBT Group Snubbed Again for St. Patrick’s Day Parade
After being denied a spot in 2013’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, a local gay education group wasn’t allowed to apply for this year’s parade. The Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network’s co-chair said the application form to participate wasn’t posted on the parade’s website and organizers never returned GLSEN’s phone calls. The parade starts this Saturday at noon at Eggleston Street south of Gilbert Avenue.
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Hold on, Google. Cincinnati Bell To Offer High-Speed Internet, Too
Hot on the heels of City Hall’s recent push to persuade Google to bring its high-speed Fiber network to Cincinnati, Cincinnati Bell plans to offer gigabit internet speeds to small businesses in June and residential customers by September. Cincinnati Bell’s Fioptics Internet package currently offers speeds at 10 megabits per second compared to the 1,000 megabit speed gigabit internet provides. Cincinnati Bell also hopes to expand Fioptics coverage to 70 percent of the Cincinnati area by 2017.
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Lyft and Uber Coming to Cincinnati Soon
Trying to hail a cab in Cincinnati can be an effort in futility. Thankfully two ridesharing companies — Uber and Lyft — are coming to town soon. The companies have been staples in larger cities for a few years now, but recently have been showing up in other Ohio cities such as Columbus and Cleveland. There’s no set date for when the companies will arrive, although both have been posting jobs on their websites for the Cincinnati area.
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Brandery Among Top 10 Seed Accelerators at SXSW
The Brandery, a startup incubator located in Over the Rhine is helping to put Cincinnati in the spotlight at SXSW Interactive. The conference which ends today, is located in Austin, TX and has become the defacto annual tech-pilgrimage for startups, investors and general nerds. In addition to a slew of new product launches and great networking opportunities, the event highlights a handful of organizations that are helping to promote the mission of the interactive start-up culture; Brandery was among the top ten in the country.
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